'RoboCop' redo respects 1987 original

9:24 PM,
Feb. 12, 2014

Joel Kinnaman and Abblie Cornish's characters struggle as a couple in 'RoboCop.'

Written by

Bill Goodykoontz
| Gannett

If ever a movie seemed like a bad candidate for a remake, it's Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film "RoboCop."

First of all, it was really good. But it was also a product of its time, an incredibly violent, funny sci-fi film that was also a gleeful take-down of corporate greed. Of course one of the bad guys snorted cocaine off the chests of hookers. Why wouldn't he?

So now Jose Padilha has undertaken a remake - and a PG-13-rated one, at that. How could this possibly work? ...